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...anything, the statement demonstrated that the Waleses' war is far from over. The announcement came not from Buckingham Palace but from Princess Diana's press representative, Jane Atkinson. She said that after the divorce, Diana would be known as Diana, Princess of Wales (a common styling for a titled widow or divorcee), she would keep her magisterial apartment in Kensington Palace, and she would continue to be a part of all decisions regarding the couple's sons (the Queen has final control of Prince William's upbringing...
DIED. ELEANOR CLARK, 82, essay writer and novelist whose stylish books on Rome and Brittany used travel as a springboard for evocative explorations of culture and history; in Boston. She was the widow of the novelist Robert Penn Warren...
Exactly who is supposed to extend this apology? The last Confederate widow died in the 1960s. To be sure, perpetrators of the Jim Crow South will live for decades; is Professor Kilson referring to these men and women? Or am I, as descendant of Southern "slavocrats," supposed to apologize...
...when racism no longer exists in this country of 250 million and rising? "From where I sit," it appears that prejudice will not be eliminated until the Last Judgment. Or does Professor Kilson mean that the mature stage will be around the year 2070, when the last Civil Rights widow tells all--that is, when the victims of broadly institutionalized American racism no longer inhabit the earth...
...many lawsuits have been filed against Anna Nicole Smith that the nonwaif model and millionaire's widow has declared bankruptcy. She filed for Chapter 11 in order to focus her finances on winning a share of the estate of her late husband...